Tag Archives: Hacks

Nudging users toward security works. That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with Safer Internet Day on February 8th. In October 2021, the company announced plans to turn on two-factor authentication by default for 150 million Google users who were not currently using the service and to require 2 million YouTube creators to use it. In the latest post, Google says it

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Soaring retail and institutional interest in cryptocurrency last year also led to a boom in criminal activity that cost investors billions, underscoring the urgency of efforts to regulate the digital coin movement.  According to research firm Chainalysis, cryptocurrency addresses associated with illegal activity accumulated $14 billion. But when weighted against all cryptocurrency activity, the figure accounted for a relatively paltry 0.15% of total funds changing hands on any blockchain —… Source link

GOOGLE Chrome users were warned of “multiple high-level hacks of [the] browser” for the second time this week, reports say. The tech giant advised its 2.6billion users to be aware in a new blog post, revealing four “high” rated vulnerabilities – days after discovering Chrome’s 12th and 13th “zero day” exploits, reported Forbes. 3 Google warned users to delete Chrome for the second time this weekCredit: Getty 3 Google confirmed ‘multiple high-level hacks of browser’Credit: EPA Google‘s… Source link

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Bloomberg Trader Arrested as WallStreetBets Phenomenon Finds Echo in Japan (Bloomberg) — A retail investor buys shares in a small company, touts his position on social media and inspires a horde of followers to do the same. The stock price goes to the moon — before crashing back to earth.It’s an all-too-familiar tale to anyone watching the market in 2021, but this wasn’t GameStop Corp. It wasn’t even in America. And it happened in 2018.It was in the Japanese city of Osaka, where a day… Source link

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google and Microsoft are at knives drawn. Driven in part by pressure from lawmakers and regulators over the extraordinary power the two technology companies wield over American life, the California-based search engine giant and Washington-based software firm are wrestling to throw each other under the bus. Tensions between Microsoft Corp and Alphabet-owned Google have been simmering for a while but the rivalry has become unusually public in recent days as executives from… Source link

Tesla Powerwall tech is getting upgraded with better security but users are still exposing their … [+] power supplies unnecessarily, researchers warn. (Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via Getty Images) Toronto Star via Getty Images Tesla’s plans to revolutionize the world’s power supply are bold, as are the early adopters. But users of the Tesla Powerwall home energy devices should take care when configuring them to be monitored over the mobile… Source link